A 24-year-old transgender woman was shot to death Tuesday morning in the Englewood neighborhood on Chicago's South Side.

Family
and friends knew her as Tiara Richmond, but she also went by the name
Keke Collier, said LaSaia Wade, an advocate for transgender rights with
Brave Space Alliance.

Richmond was in a vehicle with a male at 6:14 a.m. in the 7300 block of
South May Street when the male fired shots, Chicago Police said. When
officers arrived, they found Richmond lying on the ground nearby with
gunshot wounds to her chest, arm and hand.

The son of global boxing legend Muhammad Ali was detained for about
two hours on arrival at a Florida airport and questioned about his
religion, his lawyer said.

Muhammad Ali Jr. was returning from Montego Bay, Jamaica, with his mother — Ali's first wife, Khalilah
— on Feb. 7 when immigration officers at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood
International Airport held him, said Chris Mancini, a former federal
prosecutor and a friend of the family.

Like his father, Ali Jr. is Muslim.

Khalilah showed officers a picture of herself with her ex-husband, who died June 3, and she was not detained, Mancini said. But Ali Jr. had no such photo.

"It is a very interesting twist in history,"
Mancini told NBC News. "His father fought for his religious rights, and
now that Trump is president, he has to fight."

Friday, February 24, 2017

WASHINGTON
— Journalists from The New York Times and several other news
organizations were prohibited from attending a briefing by President
Trump’s press secretary on Friday, a highly unusual breach of relations
between the White House and its press corps.

Reporters
from The Times, BuzzFeed News, CNN, The Los Angeles Times and Politico
were not allowed to enter the West Wing office of the press secretary,
Sean M. Spicer, for the scheduled briefing. Aides to Mr. Spicer only
allowed in reporters from a handpicked group of news organizations that,
the White House said, had been previously confirmed.

Those
organizations included Breitbart News, the One America News Network and
The Washington Times, all with conservative leanings. Journalists from
ABC, CBS, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Fox News also
attended.

Reporters
from Time magazine and The Associated Press, who were set to be allowed
in, chose not to attend the briefing in protest of the White House’s
actions.

On
February 21, 1965 bullets ripped through the body of human rights
leader Malcolm X. This is the most comprehensive film about the events
leading up to his assassination, what steps the assassins took to end
his life and the aftermath of the murder trial. Was Malcolm's death the
result of his internal conflicts with the Nation of Islam or was there a
larger force behind those who pulled the trigger?

A judge ruled Friday that only one of 13 women prosecutors hoped to have testify at the Bill Cosby sex-assault trial — to show a pattern of behavior — can take the stand.

The defense had fought hard to keep all the
women out of the case, but the judge decided the jury can hear only from
the woman referred to as Prior Alleged Victim Six in court papers.

Wes Oliver, the criminal justice program
director at Duquesne University and an NBC News analyst, said the ruling
is a victory for Cosby, who could have been damaged by a parade of
women telling similar stories under oath.

"It's better than nothing for the prosecution.
If you're Bill Cosby, you would rather the number be zero. But this is a
game-changer," Oliver said.

"If there are 13 women testifying, it looks like
it's part of a real profile for him," he added. "But it's much easier
to discredit one than 13."

An NBC News I-Team Special Investigation

Araceli Quintero says she was trying to be a peacemaker in her New York high school last year when trouble erupted.

“I
was basically trying to help my friend and another girl at school to
not fight, because I didn’t want my friend to get suspended,” she told
the I-Team.

But when the
18-year-old’s attempts failed, a brawl broke out and she was caught up
in the fight. That triggered a 60-day suspension, and a temporary
transfer to an alternative school.

Araceli
told her story at Make the Road New York, a non-profit group that
mentors minority students who have run into trouble at school.

“Predominantly
young people of color are the ones who are being suspended,” said
Adilka Pimentel, Youth Police Accountability Organizer for Make the
Road.

Kesi
Foster, a coordinator with another non-profit, the Urban Youth
Collaborative, said he sees the same thing with students being arrested.

“There’s
still a system that’s very much in place that’s criminalizing their
behavior,” he said. “And it has almost intentionally replaced guidance
counselors, social workers and supportive help – with prosecutors,
police officers and judges.”

The I-Team found minority students are indeed more likely than other students to be suspended or arrested. Along
with the NBC News Investigative Unit and the NBC-owned stations, the
I-Team analyzed data collected from all public schools in the nation by
the U.S. Department of Education.

A nearly two-year long NBC Bay Area investigation revealed schools call
the police on black students and children with disabilities at
disproportionately higher rates than their peers. Following the series
of Investigative Unit reports, California Assemblywoman Shirley Nash
Weber (D-San Diego) is now proposing legislation that would require school districts
to define the role and responsibilities of their campus based officers.
Bigad Shaban reports on a story that first aired on Feb. 21.

First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC
Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why
they matter

The good news for the Trump White House is that it's experienced its
least controversial week over the last few days. Yes, that's a low bar,
but there's been no bombshell Russia-related story (though check out the
CNN report below), and the president has tweeted less (though there's this one from this morning).
But here's the bad news for Team Trump: In this honeymoon phase, the
GOP's most significant legislative priorities are, well, in trouble. On
Obamacare, former House Speaker John Boehner dropped this truth bomb:
"[T]hey'll fix Obamacare. I shouldn't call it repeal and replace because
that's not what's going to happen. They're basically going to fix the
flaws and put a more conservative box around it." And on tax reform,
President Trump seemed to warm to House Speaker Paul Ryan's plan in a Reuters interview, but those encouraging words from Trump might be a little too late given this solid GOP opposition (see here, here and here).

Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail to bring tax relief to
middle-class families, but economists worry this will come in the form
of a huge windfall for big businesses and the richest Americans.

"We don't really know what the Trump team will propose," said Gary
Hufbauer, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International
Economics. "It'll be someplace between Trump's campaign statements and
the Ryan-Brady plan."

Treasury Secretary and former Goldman Sachs
executive Steven Mnuchin said on CNBC Thursday the administration was
working on "very significant" tax plans it hoped to have ready by
Congress's August recess.

He said middle-income tax cuts would be a focus,
along with lower taxes and fewer regulations on businesses, but
provided little in the way of new details or more clarification about
what that would look like for the average American taxpayer.

France’s far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen has
been heckled by a topless Femen activist at a news conference intended
to outline her views on foreign policy ahead of the presidential
election.

The protester managed to chant “Marine, fake feminist” several times before being physically removed from the Paris venue.

It’s not the first time this has happened to Le Pen, a
self-styled feminist and the only woman running in the presidential
race.

A group of Femen activists also disrupted a speech of hers in May, 2015.

Malaysian police revealed they’ve discovered traces of a
highly toxic nerve agent on the face of Kim Jong-Nam, the half-brother
of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, who was murdered in Kuala Lumpur
earlier in February.

Clear, odourless, tasteless and with the consistency of
motor oil, the toxic nerve agent is commonly known under its US military
code name “VX”. It is so fast acting, says the CFR, that a known antidote to the toxin would have to be administered “almost immediately to have a chance at survival.”

VX, also known as O-ethyl S-diisopropylaminomethyl methylphosphonothiolate, is 100 times more toxic than the nerve gas Sarin. Sarin, depending on the dosage, can kill within minutes causing convulsions, paralysis and extreme pain.

In his high-profile,
high-priced hire of Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, NBC News chief Andy
Lack placed a major bet on star power. But Lack’s biggest, priciest
talent, Today’s Matt Lauer, provides something of a cautionary
tale. With morning news being one of the last mass television markets,
its personalities can draw fire as well as ratings.

By Sarah Ellison

ndy Lack, the chairman of NBC News, is seen by many of his peers as an
old-school newsman in the mold of the late Roone Arledge, the famed ABC
News president. Arledge played a major role in establishing ABC News as
one of the leading evening newscasts in the 1980s and 90s. He did so in
part by hiring big names and high-profile talent—for instance, wooing
Diane Sawyer away from CBS News, even though ABC already employed the
very visible Barbara Walters. Lack is currently on his second tour at
NBC. He joined NBC News in 1993, rose to the top of the news division,
then left in 2003 to head up Sony Music. He returned in 2015 in the wake
of the scandal involving news anchor Brian Williams, who was revealed to
have embellished, among other stories, his experience during an incident
in Iraq in 2003.

Recently, Lack pulled an Arledge: wooing away Megyn Kelly from Fox News. The move generated a flurry of headlines not only for its audacity but
also because it was initially unclear just what Kelly would be doing at
NBC. More than anything, the idea seemed to represent an act of faith in
what high-profile talent, rather than mission or content, can
accomplish: star power as business model. Until her hiring by NBC, Kelly
was the wildly successful host of Fox News’s The Kelly File, a political and current-events show on weeknights that was one of the highest-rated
cable-news programs in the country. NBC is paying Kelly more than $15
million, far less than the $25 million a year she was offered to stay
at Fox. NBC went to her with a blank slate, according to a person close
to Kelly. “Everyone else came to her with an idea of what they
wanted.”

HOOSICK FALLS — The village board decided on Thursday to
postpone discussion of a revised settlement with two companies held
responsible for polluting the water here with PFOA.

Mayor David Borge said a village trustee had a family health
emergency and would not be present at the meeting. That's why he wanted
to postpone any action on the $1 million settlement with the two
companies, Saint Gobain and Honeywell.

Residents had gathered in the Hoosick Armory in anticipation of the
meeting, with some holding cardboard signs that read, “Deeply Polluted
Village, Deeply Flawed Settlement” and “Clean Water Doesn’t Come Cheap.”

Prosecutors from U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s public corruption unit
will sit down Friday with Mayor de Blasio face to face and question him
about whether he traded government favors for political donations,
sources told the Daily News.

The mayor, who spent hours this week with his lawyers gearing up for
the imminent showdown with the feds, requested the Midtown tete-à-tete,
City Hall sources said.

De Blasio has been haunted by the shadow of several probes being
conducted simultaneously by state and federal authorities into various
aspects of his fund-raising and attempts to throw his political weight
around.

The feds are focusing on whether de Blasio or his aides used their
official standing in City Hall to help out donors in exchange for
contributions made either to his 2013 mayoral campaign or his
now-defunct nonprofit, law enforcement sources tell the Daily News.

Brooklyn Congresswoman Yvette Clarke proclaimed at a crowded town hall last night that it “won’t be long” before President Donald Trump is impeached—and predicted that Republicans currently scared of him will eventually join with Democrats like her.

President Trump spoke today with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
to reiterate America’s strong bilateral cooperation with Canada.
President Trump underscored
the importance of America’s relationship with Canada for addressing the
problems facing both countries, as well as the opportunities for both
countries. To that end, President Trump emphasized the importance of
working closely with Canada on cross-border
issues, including implementation of his Administration’s actions to
protect America from terrorist attacks by foreign nationals and others.
The two leaders noted their desire to continue building on the
countries’ deep partnership, which has been strengthened
by their meeting on February 13.

As President Trump is pressured to substantively respond to the rise in
anti-Semitic incidents since his election, a new analysis reveals that
Breitbart News under Trump's chief strategist Stephen Bannon fostered a
comment section — a sample of Breitbart’s readership — that increasingly
reflected language specific to the white nationalist “alt-right”
movement, including anti-Semitic sentiment.

Comparing the language of Breitbart commenters to the language of the most aggressive far-right extremists online
— e.g. language used by Twitter users who advocate for violence against
minorities and are openly pro-Nazi — we can see a clear trend of
increasing similarity over a three-year period, the bulk of it under
Bannon. Bannon left Breitbart to join the Trump campaign in mid-August
2016 but the editorial focus of the site stayed the course he set it
on.

Click on the graph to increase its size.

Diving deeper into anti-Semitic sentiment we see a similar trajectory.
In early 2013, the term “Jewish” was used in a similar way as “white” or
“black” as a racial/ethnic descriptor, which is similar to how "Jewish"
is used in the mainstream press. By 2016 on Breitbart, however,
“Jewish” had morphed into an epithet, used in similar contexts as
“socialist” or “commie.”

ATLANTA - Jaime Harrison, chairman of the South Carolina Democratic
Party, dropped out of the race for Democratic National Committee
chairman to endorse front-runner Tom Perez Thursday, potentially putting
victory within the former labor secretary's reach.

Harrison announced his move on MSNBC and in an email to DNC members.

"Tom and I have dedicated our careers to helping
people through public service," Harrison said in the email. "With so
much at stake, our next Chair will lead the fight of a generation. We
must all fight side by side. I'm standing by Tom Perez's side, and I
hope you will join me in doing the same."

Harrison was said to have had the third largest
number of votes committed to him in a crowded field of eight candidates,
and he could bring as many as 20 votes into Perez' column, according to
a source familiar with the situation.

That might be enough to put Perez over the top
on the first round of voting Saturday in his struggle against his
closest rival, Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison.

“As the federal government seeks to roll
back the progress we have achieved toward equality, we in New York will never
stop fighting to ensure the LBGTQ community and all Americans are afforded the
equal protections guaranteed to them by the United States constitution.

“The misguided action taken by the federal government last night runs contrary
to the New York Promise of individual freedoms. With the stroke of a pen, they
seek to move this country backwards.

“Today, I am urging the State Education Department to issue a directive to all
school districts making it clear that – regardless of Washington's action – the
rights and protections that had been extended to all students in New York
remain unchanged under state law.

“In New York, whether you are gay, straight or transgender, Muslim, Jewish or
Christian, rich or poor, black or white or brown, we respect all people – and
we will continue to enforce our laws and stand united against those who seek to
drive us apart.”

​The Governor issued the followingletterto the State Education Department:

A
look at the film adaptation of August Wilson's 1987 Pulitzer
Prize-winning play, "Fences," with the film's producer and star, Denzel
Washington, and Constanza Romero Wilson, the wife of August Wilson.

Through a cadre of volunteers and the resourcefulness of student members, SAVE chapters are growing and making a positive difference across the nation. SAVE is a unique and powerful
approach to youth safety because it recognizes the role that young
people can take in making schools and communities safer. Because SAVE
chapters are established and operated by students, theopportunity to spread the message of nonviolence to young people and their communities is enhanced when SAVE chapters exist. Focusing on crime prevention, conflict management and service projects, SAVE students are providing positive peer influences in violence prevention efforts.

National civil rights leader Rev. Al
Sharpton will discuss key issues impacting civil rights, economic and social
justice and criminal justice reform at The New School on February 28 at 6:30
p.m. The event will be hosted by Maya Wiley, Senior Vice President, and Henry
Cohen, Professor at The New School.

As an internationally renowned civil rights
leader, activist, and founder of National Action Network (NAN), Rev. Al
Sharpton has dedicated his life to the fight for justice and equality.
For decades, he has turned the power of dissent and protest into tangible
legislation impacting the lives of ordinary people. As former President
Barack Obama once stated, Rev. Sharpton is a “voice for the voiceless” and a
“champion for the downtrodden”. As head of NAN, which currently operates
hundreds of chapters across the country including a Washington, D.C. bureau and
headquarters in Harlem, NY, Rev. Sharpton has taken the teachings of the Rev.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and applied them to a modern civil rights
agenda. He has been a tireless advocate for everything from police reform
and accountability to protection of voting rights and education equality.
A 2016 Vanity Fair profile described him as “arguably the country’s most
influential civil rights leader.”

The event will be
hosted by Maya Wiley,
Senior Vice President and the Henry Cohen
Professor of Urban Policy and Management at theMilano School of
International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy. Under her leadership, The New School and key
constituencies are advancing the university’s social justice agenda both inside
and outside of the university. Wiley’s role as Senior Vice President of Social
Justice dovetails with her position as the Henry Cohen Professor of Urban
Policy and Management. As a teacher, Wiley will provide a new generation of
leaders with the educational and practical training to tackle pressing issues
related to social justice. She will also work to initiate public policy
discourses with outside partners such as governments, businesses, and nonprofit
and philanthropic organizations. “They’re separate roles, but there’s a lot of
interaction between them,” Wiley says. Wiley’s appointments mark the latest
turn in a career defined by social advocacy. A civil rights attorney and policy
advocate, she has litigated, lobbied the U.S. Congress, and developed programs
to transform structural racism in the United States and in South Africa.

The New School’s Henry Cohen Lecture
Series has been devoted to advancing social equity in America. This
year, the series will examine how we can advance political, social and economic
inclusion in the context of a Trump Presidency. The series has a
long tradition of bringing together the best minds to examine how policy
efforts manifest over time as political and social environments change. The
series is named after Henry Cohen, the founding dean of the Milano School, who
served in that position from 1965 through 1983.

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